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Title: Dramatized Discourse. The Mandarin Chinese ba-construction.
Description: Language is a symbolic system of meanings evoked by linguistic forms. The choice of forms in communication is non-arbitrary. Rather, speakers pick those forms whose meanings best convey their discourse intention. The meaning of the Mandarin ba-construction, argues Jing-Schmidt, is discourse dramaticity, a concept that includes high conceptual salience and subjectivity. The ba-construction and its'syntactic variations'are never interchangeable because contrast in their meanings determines difference in their functions. Quantitative analyses based on authentic data validate the postulation of
Authors: JING-SCHMIDT, Zhuo
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Subjects: Chinese language--Syntax
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